Our Mission

Explore, Learn and Teach

Our mission is increase awareness, respect and serviceof the world around us by investing in student and teacher travel opportunities. By targeting select students and teachers we hope to stimulate their learning and in turn give the people involved opportunities to share these experiences with their families, friends and communities. These opportunities can and will be varied. Some will be organized through class talks and lectures and some will be simply conversation such as dinner conversation. You can help make these opportunities a reality by your contribution.

Our Model- EXPLORE the world, LEARN about the world, TEACH about the world

Awareness- We hope that our students and teachers are gaining keen insights of the world around them, gaining a better understanding of our global interdependence, gaining deeper insights to cultural and societal adaptations. We also feel that our students will find inspiration in such experiences that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. By seeing some of nature’s most enduring features we hope that our students will gain insight into some of the geographic and geologic forces in our world. We also expect that our students will gain insight into the both the flexible and powerful human spirit by being exposed to some of humanities most enduring creations. Our students will learn first-hand the dynamic of place in encountering the blending of human cultural traits and physical traits that created the world’s greatest places.

Respect- We also hope that our students will gain respect for the world around them both in the physical and cultural sense. By seeing some of nature’s most enduring we hope that the students will gain an appreciation of preservation efforts both at a local and global level. We also hope that through these experiences that our students will gain confidence as they have to navigate their ways through unfamiliar territory gaining additional self-respect. We also hope that after experiencing first hand examples of cultural and societal adaptations that our students and teachers will gain respect for different cultures. We also hope that by seeing first hand different ways of life that our students will gain appreciation for elements of their own cultural backgrounds while being able to evaluate similarities and differences among cultural groups.

Service- There are so many elements of service we hope are triggered by these experiences we are trying to provide for our local students and teachers. First we hope our students and teachers become involved in service projects of all sorts. We will certainly be involved in human service programs sometimes within the experience itself. The experience itself can be seen as service as it can promote culture and job opportunities in the places that we visit. The tourism itself can preserve the ecological settings in some of our endeavors (eco-tourism). We hope to inspire our students to make the world around them a better place. This can happen in a number of ways including simple change of their attitude of the world around them. They can spread their new insights, respect and awareness to others in daily conversation. Teachers can share their insights in the classroom through discussion, lessons and activities. We can encourage and hope that students will someday participate in preservation projects of cultural, historical or ecological significance. We hope they see examples and experience first-hand that there are many ways to look at problems and solutions. We hope they then bring those experiences to their future endeavors.

All of our funds will go directly to the student and teacher exploration, learning and teaching experiences.

We are going to specifically target groups of students that would not normally have access to these types of experiences specifically those that come from challenging economic backgrounds.

We will also target multiple groups of students to create much more diversity in the groups that we hope to reach through the teaching aspect of our model.

We will ideally target motivated students that want to be more involved with the world around them and who would likely be able to share with the communities that they come from and represent.

We will give teachers travel opportunities to expand their content and experience so they can share their opportunity to their students, school and community